Well, it's nearly impossible to put a flat object, like a tile, on a curved surface like the "step wall," but having two pieces on one side and three pieces on the other would drive me nuts.

But I like your tile! :-)

My pool has 6"x 6" tile and lots of curves and none of my tiles were cut. Funny tho - when we chose the 6 x 6 tiles, our salesman tried to discourage us saying they would have to be cut at the curves... hmmmm.

BTW - I think your tiles are beautiful!

It looks to me like they cut the set of three's narrower, therefore needing 3 and the set of 2 are wider. Why didnt they use 2 equally on both sides? Because.....you said it, they were lazy and its not their pool so they just dont care??? Did you ask them, what was the excuse? Are we just picky? I expect people to do their job as if it was in their own home, then I wonder, what do their homes look like???? Maybe the other half of their customers dont care???? I find workmanship these days leaves much to be desired. You have to be there and keep checking on their work. However, very pretty tile!

I've seen lots of pools on here with lots of curves and I've never noticed this done on any of them (unless I wasn't looking close enough). Our pool had mosaic tile on mesh so the curves were not a problem. I know I wouldn't want this on my pool, but you did choose a beautiful tile though! Wow!

We had the same issue with the front of our spa spill-over - a very big focal point. I had them change it to even it out - so it wasn't so obvious. They really just didn't care for professionals - of course they charged me to do it - I was picking my battles at that time.

I am very glad I did otherwise it would drive me crazy everyday . .

One problem I see is they had a bad (i.e. dull) blade - the cuts are very jagged. A good blade would not have caused the little pieces to fly off when cut and therefore you would have perfectly even grout lines where the cuts are instead of chunks out of the tile where the grout filled in. Secondly, why did they cut one in half and the other in thirds. And if they absolutely HAD to cut them, they could have put them so close together and used a different color grout - it would have been almost impossible to tell (of course, they would need the nice, sharp tile blade!) They could have done a better job with even grout lines even on the full tiles. I see the coping is also cut multiple times- not to point out something else, but that would really bother me too. I had them redo my coping where it didn't match the other side with grout lines.

On the plus side, I LOVE your tile! And remember, once there is water in the pool and you have it landscaped and such, these small things aren't as noticeable. There are things you can live with (very minor and not worth the pain of having it redone b/c only I will know it is there) and things you can't. On our pool, even with the water in (it just filled this past Saturday) there are things I cannot live with. Some people don't notice these sorts of things. Some do, and people like us are the ones who do. The bottom line is that it should be done right the first time, and if not, it needs to be redone. If they redo yours, don't let them take out a small part and leave you with big, sloppy grout lines where they stop. Good luck! Sorry you are going through this - we have had stuff like this all along too and finally thought we were through - now the finish must be redone b/c they put the wrong size pebbles in and half of the pool has no pebbles at all. Does it ever end??! One day, you will be in your pool and let the stress of it all just float away :)

Thank you all. I knew i wasn't nutty; picky yea, nutty no. I talked to PB today and he said he would have the guys redo it. I didn't even have to ask, I just asked him to look at it and tell me what he thought. Thank you also for the compliments on the tile. It was so hard to decide on one and then you still never know for sure until it set. I'm going for midnight blue pebble tec and I hope this works.